10Gbps Wireless Transfers

Erasei writes "NTT Science and Core Technology Laboratory Group has developed a wireless communications that is capable of transmitting data at speeds of up to 10Gbps. In order to achieve such high data transmission speeds, the system uses the as-yet-unused 120GHz frequency band. The actual bandwidth the system uses is 17GHz, and the method of modulation employed is amplitude shift keying."

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[PhysicsScholar]

I did some undergraduate research in this area when I was back at Trinity College.

One of my favorite areas of study in this filed was the derivation of optimum receiver principles (including intersymbol interferences and equalization). You really can't appreciate a cellular phone and its chat/texting abilities until you understand just how hard it is to ensure lossless cellular communication between two carriers.

The modulation and coding for fading wireless channels, as well as spread spectrum communication analysis is rather tedius in my opinion, but overall it didn't taint my feeling that wireless is where the future is going and that what I was studying had some actual real-world application to it.

All too often academia is just going thru the motions without delving into the real trials/tribulations/concerns of modern-day corporate research.